Lesson 20: Stress and Illness: Slide 12
Can All Stress Make You Sick?
- If stress is intermittent, your immune system will have a chance to recover and be ready for the next assault
- Unless the body has a chance to recuperate, the stress hormones accumulate and build up
- What kinds of stress can deplete the body’s ability to fight off sickness?
- Chronic illness, chronic emotional stress such as depression, anger or anxiety, chronic physical stress such as lack of sleep and food
- If the stress persists the immune response
can fail and you can get sick
Notes:
Pg 112-113, Sternberg, Esther M., 2001, “The Balance Within,” W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
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